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by ahmeni 9y ago
With number portability there is no solid "owner" of phone number blocks any more.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
The most surprising aspect of this is having anyone manage to consider any of the data valuable at the tire-fire of a social network LinkedIn.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
For a moment I thought this kind of massive price increase on a core component would matter for HoloLens and then I remembered the dumb thing costs $3,000 USD anyways.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
Slowly but surely, yes. But definitely slow enough that there's still a significant amount of the Windows CE powered hardware around. Swapping the hardware is the easy part but integrating new components with your SAP powered warehouse
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by ahmeni 9y ago
Windows CE will live on for the foreseeable future in the form of those terrible, terrible inventory scanguns.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
Time traveling UX designers to prevent a future catastrophe.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
There was definitely demand for "Windows, but on my phone", which would have been a "restricted platform" but in the way that people actually wanted.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
I could really use a filter for Location (or better yet +-time zones). Finding folks to play with in the Sydney (UTC+10:00) offset is often a pain, moreso than finding a common game or platform.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
Contactless transactions generate a one-time use code, they're much more secure than your standard magnetic swipe.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
Median wage is meaningless against systems with long term stagnant wage growth against a rising cost of living. Strikes don't have an effect unless they disrupt something, that's why they work. If you see a minor inconvenience to
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by ahmeni 9y ago
It's a good cause that would the increase of welfare his workers. It would additionally empower others to unionize and improve their quality of life as well.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
TKinter is a bit of a bizarre choice these days, it looks like you're locked into a non-shell non-native GUI for the benefit of being able to natively manipulate TKinter objects. Though, looking through the plugins it is nice to see ho
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by ahmeni 9y ago
It's bizarre to see how Etsy went from producing a significant amount of technical software and community engagement a few years ago and then suddenly stopped. Their GitHub is a testament to this sudden dropoff. Was there anything ever
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by ahmeni 9y ago
This seems like one of those things that you'd really want as a plan A but absolutely require sensible plan B as a backup.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
As someone working on what amounts to fairly trivial applications in the enterprise, it's amazing to see engineering efforts like this take place over nearly 20 years of in-flight time.
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by ahmeni 9y ago
There's a massive logical leap between having an API and having certificates on public FTP servers. An API is required for you to have proper infrastructure as code and leaving any bit to human input other than another validation step
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by ahmeni 9y ago
Given some of the internal CA systems I've dealt within the past, I'd almost prefer a public CA in some cases. Sometimes your internal CA is just the group with manual access to the certificate provisioning and signing systems wit
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by ahmeni 9y ago
There is a significant amount of "we will" language in here, rather than "we have started" or "have already begun". The choice of language speaks volumes that they only appear to be willing to take necessary au
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by ahmeni 10y ago
It will definitely interesting to see if the $5/registration model will pan out with a newer service as a quality filtration method without a locally established community in place first.
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by ahmeni 10y ago
I've also got a JS application (React) running on Gitlab's CI and one handy thing I've found is using Gitlab's own pages as an easy deployment environment for my development version. You can pick it up with the pages act
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by ahmeni 10y ago
This was still an issue when the currencies were closer to parity but the swing only makes things worse.
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by ahmeni 10y ago
I grew up in Vancouver and miss it daily but none of the salaries would allow me to purchase a house anywhere closer than New Westminster. Instead now I live in Sydney, Aus and have the same cost of living but a salary that's scaled ap
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by ahmeni 10y ago
Stage 1: Bill Maris is read-only -- August 10, 2016 In this stage, you will no longer be able to create or edit Bills. Marking a Bill as read will also not be saved. Robots that try to write to a Bill will stop functioning. During this time
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by ahmeni 11y ago
It is inspiring to see the additional ways people have implemented blockchain-based VC money plundering. While initial Bitcoin plundering efforts have stagnated, future Ethereum initiatives will continue that refreshing Ponzi-esque flavour
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by ahmeni 11y ago
Because your view is a naive reduction in an attempt to trivialize the issue by claiming nobody was specifically harmed when the matter at hand is the protection of society as a whole.
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by ahmeni 11y ago
Would you, as a human, say the legal system is some sort of Djinn that a certain combination of words will suddenly defeat? My goodness, that flag does look a bit gold fringed.
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by ahmeni 11y ago
yes
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by ahmeni 11y ago
Blindly following what other people have done for a situation rather than the appropriate path for your country/status/education/etc. is a fantastic way to get deported or denied entry. OP should consider himself lucky for th
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Am I a 10x Programmer?(amia10xprogrammer.ninja)
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by ahmeni 11y ago
Sorry, before you're able to answer real questions we'll need you to complete the Hacker News simulator.

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